John Casani, JPL's chief engineer, and former project
manager of the Voyager and Galileo missions, received the
agency's Exceptional Achievement Medal for organizing and leading
the Lab's successful ISO 9001 certification campaign, culminating
his career of shaping and implementing the Mariner, Voyager,
Galileo and Cassini-Huygens spacecraft. The medal honors
"significant, specific accomplishment or contribution clearly
characterized by a substantial and significant in operations,
efficiency, service, financial savings, science or technology
that contributes to the NASA mission."

The Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor that NASA
confers, was awarded to Space and Earth Sciences Director Dr.
Charles Elachi for his management of the JPL Space and Earth
Sciences Program, and for his vision and leadership in creating a
new architecture for JPL's Mars Exploration Program. The honor
also went to Norm Haynes for his excellent systems engineering,
mission design and project management contributions to JPL flight
projects and his leadership of the Telecommunications and Mission
Operations Directorate and the Mars Exploration Directorate.

JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, Calif.